Fundraising

While the overall cryptocurrency market appears to be unwaveringly bearish, some investors think the downtrend is a good time to get into the industry. UK financial giant Barclays is looking to invest in a cryptocurrency project.

Donating to victims of various disasters is a great way to introduce peer-to-peer digital assets to new people and organizations. Cryptocurrencies have evolved over the past decade and are now being used by international non-governmental organizations (I-NGOs) like Save The Children for charitable purposes.

Now fundraising is available on one more crypto exchange. p2pb2b has launched its own IEO platform, and first fundraisers have already taken place. Thus, Faireum project has raised $50,000 for the creation of a distributed gaming platform in less than a day. On April, 29 the second IEO stage of the project has begun.

Blockchain offered the world a new model for a p2p economy, introducing free global trade without intermediaries and reliable storage of value without the fear of seizure or account freeze by regulators. Along with this new paradigm of money arrived a new paradigm of fundraising. The so-called ICO (initial coin offerings) gave businesses easy and global access to investor money and provided investors themselves with endless opportunities.

Bakkt, the Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) forthcoming cryptoasset trading platform, has embossed around $182.5 million from several investors. The money will be used in creating and developing the institutional-grade regulated cryptoasset exchange, warehousing and clearing services for storage and physical delivery. The firm now hopes to give an updated timeline on rolling out Bitcoin (BTC) day-to-day futures contracts early this year.

With the successful conclusion of its crowdfunding campaign via a token sale, blockchain-based community platform Consentium has announced an updated development roadmap to reflect a more streamlined realignment of its strategic efforts.

Hada DBank continues its mission to advance Islamic Banking through the the use of blockchain technology. The startup is currently managing its main ICO after holding a successful presale where it sold over 8 million HADA coins -- easily surpassing its fundraising goal for that event.

The loyalty rewards program Giftz is ending their initial coin offering this thursday, and to celebrate a successful fundraising they are keeping their promise and making your Ether worth more than ever!

Talent sourcing innovator MDL Talent Hub has released an announcement confirming that its presale received the maximum fundraising total of $500,000 USD, putting them firmly on track for the general initial token offering (ITO) scheduled for March 10th, 2018, which has a hard cap limit of $20 million.